Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-19
CUSTER CHRONICLE.

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ARRIVE DEPART.
Assaying done at Booth & Webster's.
Hermosa wants q mail route to Hill
City via the Eta mine.
Firemen's Masquerade Ball on the 22d
The School of Mines was formally
' opened at Rapid on Wednesday.
If you want a good partner get the
Farmers Daughter.
Stewards bill for a Soldiers home at
Hot Springs has passed the house.
The greatest variety Of teas and tobac-
COS in the Hills at Cochran's.
Iron Hill stock is again on the boom,
$500 per share being refused on Wed.
nesday.
Assaying done at Booth & Webster's
The local option temperance bill has
passed the lower house of the territorial
legislature.
The Farmers Daughter is q cook
stove, the best stow 'ade. 1t is sold at
j. Cochran's.
Hosting machinery Is now being
transported from Hermosa for the Col
den Summit Mining Company.
Cochran's for groceries and hardware,
the cheapest house in the Hills, and the
best goods in the market.
Rapids new fire company has been
christened "The Tom Sweeney Hose"
in honor of Rapids chief ~rustier.
For fresh candy, genuine Havana
cigars, ali kinds of pipes, go to Cochran's
where they sell cheap.
Prof. Taylor, who some time ago
figured as an expert at Greenwood, is
reported hung in Mexico. Better late
than never.
The Rapid Republican reports an
other Richmond in the tin field who
will divide the honors with the Harvey
Peak Company.
The Dakota Bell, Carruth's new paper
which will be devoted to humorous
humor, etc, will be issued at Sioux
Falls il a few days.
A car load Of Spikes and fshplates
recently arrived at Rapid for the Home
stake Railroad company. Report fixes
the next terminus at Galena.
Charley Maskrey has recently &C.
cepted a position on the Rapid Republi.
a staff, which accounts for the recen,
improvement in that journal.
The public schools in this place will
be closed until next Tuesday morning
Supt. Bower will make an official visit
to the Glen Erin school in the meai
time.
Six new members were recently nd
ded to the Masonic lodge at Hermosa
whose membership will be further in
creased in the near future by others who
the Pilot proclaims, arc already under
deep conviction.
Tom McMasters, brother of Sam Nc
Masters, deceased, and formerly snper
ntendent Of the Iron Hill Mining Com.
p&ny ut Carbonate Camp, is said to have
realized a half million dollars in San
Francisco recently on the rise in Nevada
mining stocks.
A bill now pending in the Dakota
legislature provides that whenever the
funds Of a county shall exceed $4,000
they shall be deposited iii a bank Sc
lected by the county commissioners as
the bank presenting a proposal offering
the highest rate of interest upon the
monthly balances Of the funds and Civ
ing satisfactory bonds.
The masquerade ball to be given by
the Custer City Fire Company at the
toaiS AiohcU bail oA IhESdHy CtGuilE,
February 22d, gives promise Of being
the great social event of the season.
Everybody is expecting a pleasant time,
and judging from the very elaborate
preparations which are now being made,
their expectations will doubtless be
moro than realized.
The boys answer to the Pilots con
nundrum is: 'The cost of five commits
~sioners, as compared with the cost of
three must be figured as FIVE to three
without reference to past, present or
future per diem, so far as their salary is
concerned, to say nothing ofthe amount
Of time Cat $500 per hour consumed in
additional chin, and the perusal of long
and tedious pub docs.
At the Hermosa lyceum, on Saturday
night, it was determined that Columbus
was entitled to more honor in the dis
cnvarx than Wacbiprtoo ~ - ~.